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Kel Munger

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It’s in the air

Trigger warnings Crime, violence against women and children, sexual violence.

Early on in Caroline Fraser’s new book, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, comes this passage:

It’s August of 1961. I'm seven mon...

10 months ago
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2024’s book list

It’s been a wild year.

It’s also been a really good year for books.

While I haven’t done a great job of keeping this ’stack updated, I have read a whole boatload of books, and I’ve tried my hand—er, ears—somewhat begrudgingly at audio bo...

a year ago
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Where the wolves are

Let’s never dismiss the power of impending doom to keep a reader going. Long before the dark resolution of Adam Rapp’s novel, Wolf at the Table, we know there’s no way for this to end well.

Nonetheless, it is well worth the read, both as...

2 years ago
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Crime, all the time

I really like “true crime.”

Ever since I read my dad’s paperback copy of In Cold Blood when I was in fourth grade,* I’ve loved a narrative of murder, detection, apprehension and justice delivered. Of course, it doesn’t usually work out tha...

3 years ago
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Thursday things to read

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I’d intended to have a review of a book about the Slenderman attack (two girls stabbed another to curry favor with the mythical ghost/demon Slenderman), but have just been too fatigued today, as well as struggling with other...

3 years ago
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